January 2012
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Jan 27th
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Above:  Serge Gainsbourg: Vie héroïque (Sfar, 2010) Below:  Deneuve, Gainsbourg - Martine Peccoux
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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2011 Film Releases** (US) that pleased me.  I think these pictures are notable for their direction - that is to say, the choreography of framing, lenses, visual effects; editing style and sound design; art direction and actors’ performances (in varying ratios of importance).  A director is only one member of the crew (as everyone but especially my production friends knows), but sometimes...
Jan 24th
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The Skin I Live In (Almodóvar, 2011) (thanks to)
Jan 24th
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Number One Villain In Cinema:  Johan, Scenes From A Marriage (Bergman, 1973).
Jan 23rd
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From the set of Coriolanus - stills by Kalpesh Lathigra
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Above: Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson, 1971) [watch here] Below: Le Notti Bianche (Visconti, 1957) Both based on Dostoevsky’s White Nights
Jan 19th
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Living with the Sami people by Erika Larsen
Jan 19th
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Varykino, or the Ice Palace from Dr. Zhivago
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Split-focus diopter
Jan 15th
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Jan 13th
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Russian Empire in the early 1900s / Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Jan 13th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 7th
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L’incroyable épopée d’une campagne de pêche à la baleine…
Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 3rd
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December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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A Child's Christmas In Wales - Dylan Thomas (read... →
 [audio download here] All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 20th
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photos:  Cecil Beaton
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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ListenAin’t It A Shame - Sinead O’Connor
Dec 8th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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Lukasz Wierzbowski
Dec 1st
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November 2011
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Nov 30th
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